The Anchoress

Informationen zum Autor Robyn Cadwallader has published numerous, prize-winning short stories, poems and reviews, as well as a book of poetry and a non-fiction book based on her PhD thesis which explored attitudes to virginity and female agency in the Middle Ages. She lives among vineyards outside Canberra when not travelling to England for research, visiting ancient archaeological sites along the way. Klappentext A debut set in 13th century England, telling an absorbing story of faith, desire, shame, fear and the very human need for connection and touch, as a 17-year-old girl decides to become and anchoress; a holy woman shut away in a small cell. Now in paperback. An unforgettable debut set in thirteenth-century England, The Anchoress resonates profoundly with the issues facing women today. Zusammenfassung Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seven paces by nine, at the side of the village church. Fleeing the grief of losing a much-loved sister in childbirth and the pressure to marry, she decides to renounce the world, with all its dangers, desires and temptations.

Product details

• Authors: Robyn Cadwallader, Cadwallader Robyn
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9780571313341
• ISBN: 978-0-571-31334-1
• No. of pages: 314
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; The Plantagenet & medieval period (1154–1485), c 1154 to c 1485 (Plantagenet and Angevin period)